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Long-form guides on Irish web design, SEO, content marketing, and digital strategy. Covers the Trading Online Voucher €2,500 grant, UX, and how to commission web design without getting burned.
The content brand of Dublin web design studio digitaldesign.ie. Articles, live website reviews, podcast episodes, and honest guides to Irish digital marketing — the kind of content we wish existed when we were starting out.
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The Marketing Pod is the editorial and content arm of Dublin web design studio digitaldesign.ie. It's where we publish our thinking: long-form articles on Irish digital marketing, live reviews of Irish websites, podcast conversations with business owners and designers, and honest breakdowns of the topics that matter to small Irish businesses.
Long-form guides on Irish web design, SEO, content marketing, and digital strategy. Covers the Trading Online Voucher €2,500 grant, UX, and how to commission web design without getting burned.
We review real Irish business websites — design, UX, mobile, speed, SEO. Honest verdicts, specific suggestions, no softening. See the reviews →
Live site reviews on air, interviews with Irish business owners, and plain-language breakdowns of digital marketing topics. Listen to episodes →
The most-asked Irish digital-marketing questions, answered in full.
The 50/50 government grant for small Irish businesses adding e-commerce to their websites. What you can spend it on, what you can't, and the application traps that catch first-time applicants.
Read the guideThe €2,500 TOV grant has been described as a "90/10" pay split between government and applicant. Here's what that actually means, and why some applicants find it's closer to 50/50 in practice.
Read the breakdownWhat the 2026 web-design conversation is genuinely getting right — and what's still expensive fashion that won't pay back. Practical guide for owners who'd rather skip the agency hype.
Read the trends pieceThe seven things that move Irish small-business search rankings. The five things people obsess about that don't. Why most "SEO audits" are nonsense.
Read the tutorialStrip out the consultant-speak. A workable digital marketing strategy is four pages of plain English; here's the four pages.
Read the strategyThe five UX patterns that wreck small-business websites — and the five that quietly drive 80% of conversion gains.
Read the UX guideThe Marketing Pod is where we publish our thinking. digitaldesign.ie is where we do the work — web design, branding, SEO, content strategy for Irish businesses.
Small-business web design, e-commerce on the TOV €2,500 grant, brand-led design, and digital marketing. Based in Dublin, working with businesses across Ireland.
Honest content. No sponsored posts dressed as editorial. No generic "10 marketing tips" content. If we've written about something, it's because we've lived it — either through client work at digitaldesign.ie or through direct experience with the Irish digital market.
Long-form, researched guides on Irish web design and digital marketing. Updated when the landscape changes — not left to go stale.
Read the journal →Real Irish websites, reviewed honestly. Design, UX, copy, mobile, speed. No relationship with the businesses we review.
See reviews →Interviews, live reviews on air, and topic deep-dives. Irish digital marketing the way it's actually done.
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